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A. F. CALLAHAN. COMBINED BLANK FOR LETTER 0R MESSAGE WRITING.

APPLICATION I'ILED SEPT. 9. I9I8.

Patented May 1", 1919.

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COMBINED BLANK FOB. LETTER 0B MESSAGE WRITING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 13, 1919.

Application filed September 9, 1918. Serial No. 258,271.

To all whom it may concern:

-Be it known that I, AMERICUS F. CALLA- HAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Conrbined Blanks for Letter or'Message Writing; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawingis, forming part of this specification.

he present invention relates to improvements in blanks which are designed to facilitate letter or message writing and particularly letters or messages which are written on a typewriter with the use of transfer material for duplicating the address to be exposed on the exterior of the sealed message and which, owing to the fact that it is produced by transfer, insures the correctness of the external address. In the development of the art, more especially as relates to a means for preventing discrepancies between the address on the letter heading and the external address, it has been proposed to form the address for the external face of a combined letter sheet by transfer material, the duplicate of the address being either on the external sheet or section or on the original message sheet or section, but the efforts to produce a combined blank have not met with practical success. Established business methods require that original messages shall be free from attachments or complications, ready for filin and prmervation, and that the sender s all be able, if desired to preserve an exact duplicate of the entire writing, including, for example, the identification data of a telegraphic message, the address, and the message itself, while the inclosing section must omit all identification data and serve as a complete cover or closure for such data, as well as the body of the message written on the original sheet.

The present invention is designed to provide a combined blank for letter or message writing which will embod the desirable characteristics last above re erred to and be of a form which will adapt it for convenient and ready use by an amanuensis without liability of disarrangement in manipulation, as for example by being inserted in the typewriter which at the same time shall be cheap and capable of being handled rapidly in accordance with modern business methods, the product presenting for use an original message containing all of the identification data, the address and the message with an attached external inclosing sheet or sec tion containing the business heading and the address only and if desired the second sheet containing a duplicate of all matter written on the original, said writing being entirely produced or duplicated at the time the orig1 nal is written. 7 Referring to the accompanying draw- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a combined blank for letter or message writing, embodying the present invention, the several layers or sheets being somewhat separated one from the other, to illustrate the formation of the structure in a way readily understood from the drawing alone.

Fig. 2 is an ed e view showing the several parts of the blani; and

Fig. 3 is a rear face view showing the preferred arrangement of the narrow strip of transfer material for duplicating the a dress, the external sheet or section bein turned out into the plane of the origina sheet.

The combined blank embodies a sheet or section for the original writing, indicated at A. This sheet or section is provided with the usual business heading at 1, a panel or space for identification data as at 2, a narrow panel as at 3 for the name and address of the addressee and a third panel as at 4 for the written body of the message.

To the lower edge of the original sheet or section A there is detachably secured a second sheet B which is of substantially the same size as the sheet A, the detachable connection being formed referably by a line of perforations or wea ness as at 5. This second sheet B is, during the writing of the message, folded back of the sheet or section A, and its free edge 6 is in turn adapted to be confined b a rearwardly folding external sheet or section 0. The sheet or section 0 is relatively short or in efl'ect of an area substantially coextensive with the panels 1, 2 and 3 and on the face op osite the-face having the heading 1 it pre erably has a duplicate business heading as at 7, and a lower ganel as at 8 which corresponds to the adress panel 3. When folded to the position in Fig. 2, the two address panels 3 and 8 register one behind the other, and in order to duplicate the address alone on the external sheet or section C, the second sheet or section is provided with a narrow strip of transfer material D which may be coex tensive in area. with the address panel, but does not extend sufficiently far to ermit of duplication by transfer of either t e identification data at 2 or the body of the message at 4. Where a duplicate copy of the entire message is desired, a removable sheet of transfer material F is located between the original and second sheets or sections, between which it will be confined by the folding rearwardly of the sections B and C in such wise that accidental displacement is unlikely and the whole combined blank may, therefore, be readily inserted around the platen of a typewriter for the production of the original writing including the identification data, the name and address and the message itself.

\Vhen the message has been written it is a simple matter to detach the second sheet and remove the same together with the transfer sheet, should the latter be used, whereupon the original sheet or section A may be folded from the bottom upwardly in a forward direction, and the external sheet turned over or folded forwardly and downwardly over the same so as to constitute a complete inclosure for the writing.

I have not deemed it necessary to illustrate herein any particular sealing means, as such sealin means are well understood in the art and may consist of pastors to close the ends of the folded sheet with the message thereon, or the external sheet or section may be provided with gummed tabs for accomplishing the same ends. Both constructions are well understood in the art and need not be illustrated or further de scribed herein, inasmuch as they constitute no part of the present invention.

The second sheet, if no duplicate message has been produced thereon, may be preserved for other uses, or' if a duplicate of the original writing has been produced thereon it may be filed away for the record of the writer or the telegraph company in case of a telegraphic message.

1 The addressee receives a communication which is free from transfer material such as would tend to besmirch his file record,

and the senders records are left complete in every particular.

possibility of a discrepancy, and all labor of writing two addresses is done away with.

What is claimed is:

l. A combined blank for letter or message writing embodying three sheets or sections, (1) a sheet or section for the original writing, (2) a sheet or section of substantially theksalne size as the original and connected therewith at one edge only to fold in rear of the original and adapted to receive by transfer a duplicate of matter wri ten on the original, (3) an external sheet or section connected. at one edge with One edge of the original to fold rearwardly over a free edge of the second sheet and confine the latter during the writing of the message, said original and external sheets having on opposite faces thereof, before folding, heading data and narrow address panels located be low the heading data in position to register when said sheets are folded one behind the other, correspondingly located narrow address panels, and said original sheet or section having below the address panel a panel for the writing forming the message, and a narrow strip of transfer material located in rear of the second sheet and 'in register with the narrow address panel of the external sheet, whereby writing on the face of the original sheet may be duplicated by transfer on the second sheet and the address only duplicated on the address panel of the external sheet, the latter sheet when folded forwardly being adapted to inclose the original sheet and to expose the address reproduced thereon by transfer.

2. A combined blank for letter or message writing embodying three sheets or sections,

(1) a sheet or section for the original writing, (2) a sheet or section of substantially the same size as the original and detachably connected therewith at the bottom edge of the original to fold in rear thereof and adapted to receive by transfer a duplicate of matter written on the original, (3) a relatively short externalsheet or section connected at one edge with the top edge of the original to fold rearwardly over the free edge of the second sheet and confine the latter during the writing of the message, said original and external sheets having on opposite faces thereof before folding heading data and narrow address panels located below the heading data in position to register when said sheets are folded one behind the other, said original sheet or section having below the address panel a panelfor the writing forming the message, and a narrow strip of transfer material located on the second sheet in front of the narrow address panel of the external sheet, whereby writing on the face of the original sheet may be duplicated by transfer on the second sheet and the address only duplicated on the address 1,soa,eas

when folded forwardly being adaptedto inclose the original sheet and to form the addressed inclosure for the message.

3. A combined blank for letter or message writing embodying three sheets or sections, (1) a sheet or section for the original writing, (2} a second sheet or section of substantial y the same size as the original and detachably connected therewith at the bottom edge thereof to fold rearwardly, (3) a relatively short external sheet or section detachably connected at one edge with the upper edge of the original sheet, to fold rearwardly over the free edge ofthe second sheet and confine the latter during the writing of the message, said original and external sheets having on opposite faces thereof before folding, headingedata and narrow address panels located low the heading data in position to register whensaid sheets are folded one behind the other, and said original sheet or section having below the address panel a panel for the writing forming the'message, a removable sheet of transfer material located between the original and 26 second sheets, and a narrow strip of transfer material on the rear face of the second sheet in front of the narrow address panel of the external sheet, whereby all writing on the face of the original sheet will be dupli- 30 cated by transfer on the second sheet, and the address only duplicated on the address 4 panel of the external sheet, the latter sheet when folded forwardly being adapted to inclose the original sheet and to expose the address reproduced thereon by transfer.

AMERICUS F. CALLAHAN.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,303,838, granted May 13, 1919,

upon the application of Americus F. Callahan, of Chicago, Illinois, for an improvement in Combined Blanks for Letter or Message Writing, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2, lines 87-88, claim 1, strike out the word: "correspondingly located narrow address panels,"; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conlorin to the recoldof the case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealed this 17th at; of June, A. 0., 1919.

J. T. NEWTON.

Commissioner .4 Patentl.

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